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Card clubs/Casinos..

  • 01-09-2005 6:02pm
    #1
    kleefarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,744 ✭✭✭


    I know that card clubs and casinos get around the law by running as a private members club, but does anyone know if they have to register the club in the clubs registry at the district court prior to opening up such an operation? As there is no licensing authority for casinos/card clubs, no licence is obviously required unless they wish to sell alcohol.
    Could anybody shed a light on this?


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  • #2
    mcaul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭mcaul


    The official line is that alcohol cannot not be served in a premises where gaming is permitted or taking place thus there are no alcohol sales in the main casinos in dublin.

    To get around legislation for poker nights you effectively should become a member of a private club e.g. Vegas Nights. Membership is usually a nominal amount of €1.


    However the grey area is having poker nights in pubs. Some are using the "Charity fundraiser" line (therefore coming under "lottery" legislation) and others are going ahead until such time they are stopped. Ideally a hotel function room (non bar) or a pub function room whereby the bar is closed / minerals only served is probably the best way around current legislation.

    The Bar function room without an alcoholic bar is allowable due to the change in legislation last year when the non-alcoholic teenage discos were being stopped. His highness Mc Dowell made a slight change in the legislation stating that for the purposes of legislation that if a bar had no alcoholic drinks available it would not be regarded as a licenced part of the bar premises. (same as you can still shop in a supermarket stocking but not selling alcohol on sunday mornings.)


    PM


  • #3
    bohsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,881 ✭✭✭bohsman


    The Mayfair allowed you to bring alcohol in, leave it at the desk and when you wanted a drink they charged you acorkage fee whereas some Dublin casinos give drink away for free


  • #4
    kleefarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,744 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    Thanks for the replies lads.
    I was more interested in the way the clubs go about getting set up. I spent over twenty one years in the UK gaming business and knowing that casinos are illegal over here, was wondering how they managed to get the okay for running a casino/card club like they do in Dub and a couple of other places. I understand the private members club part, but do they just open as a private members club and that's it? Do they have to register the club and if so do they inform the district court that they will be running the club as a casino?


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